Wikipedia Watch - Google Spam Filter Victim?

This turns out to be interesting, as I was able to refine the tests to
a sharper outcome. Now, let's keep in mind the difference between the
facts, and the theory to explain them. There's something I call
"SEO superstition", which is the very understandable way random variations
can mislead people to form bad theories. And "never attribute to malice
that which can be explained by stupidity". So a particular pattern may
not be even real, or if it is, that doesn't necessarily indicate that
Google's editing search results to marginalize critics (we should be so
threatening ...).

So, with that in mind, comparing search terms, I found the following rankings
today for www.wikipedia-watch.org for the indicated strings of words (searching as a set of words, not a quoted phrase):

[can you sue Wikipedia]

Yahoo - #1 and #4
MSN - #1 and #2
Google - more than #300 (!)

[plagiarism Wikipedia]

Yahoo - #5
MSN - #3
Google - I had to go past #700 before I found a result for wikipedia-watch.org

[phenomenon of Wikipedia]

Yahoo - #3
MSN - #4
Google - somewhere around #80

Note Wikipedia Watch site ranks #1 in Google for the search [Wikipedia Watch],
but I think that may be misleading.

Feel free to try to reproduce, it's not difficult.

Conclusion: This is a real differential. It's too much to be explained by
various SEO factors. Something is amiss here.

I think wikipedia-watch.org has somehow tripped a spam penalty on Google.
This is not necessarily Daniel Brandt's fault. But there is a downgrading
of the site.

[PS: Invocation - Spammeister Matt Cutts, you might want to check this out. I know Daniel gives you a hard time about being an ex-NSA spook, but look at it this way - a bug's a bug].